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Self Discovery of a Gadfly


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nobody tell them about FDR

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Max Berger 's avatar Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social
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This is the kind of thing you really can't get away with when your opponent calls you "Sleepy Joe."

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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Today we celebrate the day the Founders declared independence by publishing a list of things King George had done that, apparently, were cuckish insufficiently authoritarian.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Four months ago, the Economist thought the country was being run pretty well.

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Sean McClintock's avatar Sean McClintock @spmcclintock.bsky.social
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He stutters, you EMPATHYLESS SOCIOPATHS. Now, I suggest you go and talk to your reporters who have written on disabilities before you get sued by the National Stuttering Foundation for SHEER STUPIDITY.

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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I hadn't been updating my "Worst of the New York Times" account (@nytimes.wtf) in a while, but this week makes me think I should change that. Go follow it!

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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If Biden does drop out, I'm looking forward to the flawless media pivot from "Why won't Biden drop out?" to running endless "Dems in disarray!" type stories for months on end.

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed a rule Tuesday outlining steps employers must take to protect indoor and outdoor workers from the risk of heat illness, the first major regulation aimed at preventing heat-related deaths on the job.

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Sean McClintock's avatar Sean McClintock @spmcclintock.bsky.social
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Nihilism's no fun. At least anarchist's get to blow stuff up with some hope of improvement.

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Like most civics teachers, Shannon Salter wanted her students to believe that they could shape the nation’s future — that their participation in politics was essential to improving their lives. But first, she needed to persuade her students to vote.

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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness 's avatar Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness @indyfromspace.bsky.social
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The truth is, a large % of "left" leaning pundits who want Harris out are racist AF, and so are a lot of your friends who just have "concerns" about her...this nation would rather elect a demented fascist rapist felon than a black woman. Period the end.

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Jill Biden appeared unmoved by panic over Joe Biden’s debate performance while speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina. “I said, ‘Look, Joe, we are not going to let 90 minutes define the four years that you’ve been president,’” she said.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Mask bans are evil and dystopian and I am appalled that they’re even being proposed. Wearing masks to protect your health and the health of others needs to be recognized as a right for all and an absolutely essential protection for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in society

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Breaking news: The Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led effort to sharply limit White House officials and other federal employees from pressuring social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the U.S. government deems problematic.

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Neil O'Brian's avatar Neil O'Brian @obrian.bsky.social
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True. But rank-and-file white evangelicals (including in SBC) already conservative on abortion by 1960s. Leadership moved/replaced to represent conservative insurgency. More in forthcoming book "Roots of Polarization": tinyurl.com/45evxyby

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Leah McElrath's avatar Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social
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Today is the 35 anniversary of the end of the Tienanmen Square protests in China, following a massacre of the student protesters by Chinese security forces. The courage shown by the never-identified “Tank Man” took place in the immediate aftermath:

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Isobel Carr's avatar Isobel Carr @isobelcarr.com
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How about they call him an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon? More accurate and more informative.

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Adam Rothman's avatar Adam Rothman @adamrothman.bsky.social
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That sound is a thousand historians' heads exploding

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David Rosnick 's avatar David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social
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SCOTUS gutting the VRA was predictably awful

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Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.

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Sean McClintock's avatar Sean McClintock @spmcclintock.bsky.social
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How many times has he been killed off? A lot.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Amazing to see this: at UNC, faculty, instructors, and TAs are withholding grades to demand amnesty for arrested and suspended students.

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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk's avatar Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social
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Congratulations to the next Fox News Primetime White Grievance Superstar

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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According to this poll released today, immigration isn’t the top issue — it’s the sixth.

Americans care more about threats to democracy and health care, and almost as much about gun violence.

Is the @nytimes.com following the Will of the People, writing as much about those issues as the border?

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grace's avatar grace @acab4cutie.top
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in the video, the cop is was getting in peoples’ faces until this girl read out loud that NYPD has paid $600k in settlements related to him.

then he gets REAL quiet, GULPS like a cartoon character, nervously tugs at his collar, and stops making eye contact. it’s incredible. x.com/jenelaina/st...

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Sean McClintock's avatar Sean McClintock @spmcclintock.bsky.social
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This is the equivalent of Pablo Escobar telling you to go to rehab.

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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This is the equivalent of your dealer saying "maybe you should try talking to someone"

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From the rest of her essay-length tweet. By these rules trans women can just as easily claim that what makes us women is that we are “geared towards producing eggs”, but “something has gone wrong” in our development. These are both normative claims - neither can be empirically tested.

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jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️ @threnody.bsky.social
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200 bodies found in a mass grave at a hospital! israel won’t say how many kids they’re keeping in prison! surgeons say the massacre has already produced “the largest cohort of pediatric amputees in history.” and ~30,000 jewish people in tel aviv are marching, demanding an end to the war.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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At Ohio State, protesters who were arrested had hijabs forcefully removed, were denied spaces to pray, and were strip searched in front of male officers.

medium.com/@fsjposu/fsj...

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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University administrators facing an impossible choice: 1. Ignore protests, let them quietly fade away as the year ends, go on happily with your life 2. Nuke them from orbit, destroying the university you theoretically lead and probably your own career

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On CBC today, I was asked about the tactics of the student protesters, the reasons for the crackdown, America's generation gap on Israel-Palestine, the question of antisemitism in the movement, and what it all might mean for US politics going forward.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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Max Berger 's avatar Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social
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we're arresting the students and protestors for peacefully expressing their political opinions ON BEHALF OF THE JEWS?!?!?

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Look, if the cops didn’t wear face masks, then they could be identified and they and their families could be in danger from other philosophy professors taking revenge.

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XO of all XOs's avatar XO of all XOs @xoofxos.bsky.social
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NYT is going to get the Dark Brandon treatment

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Drake Ghostwriters' Union Local 616's avatar Drake Ghostwriters' Union Local 616 @donachaidh.bsky.social
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The fucking arrogance

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Amanda Marcotte's avatar Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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It's buried in this piece, but the most important part: The NY Times attempted to legitimize a lie being perpetrated by Trump and Giuliani against Biden, falsely accusing Biden of committing crimes in Ukraine.

They were only stopped by Trump's first impeachment.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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